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Hearing Instrument Fitting |
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Limitations of Open Canal Products |
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by Brian Taylor, AuD, and Lisa Berkeley, MA |
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While open-canal devices offer many advantages, several of which have been substantiated with real-world evidence, they do have some limitations that dispensing professionals need to keep in mind. |
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Hearing Instrument Fitting |
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Achieving Binaural Fusion in Asymmetric Losses |
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by Jay B. McSpaden, PhD, and Lawrence D. Brethower, ScD |
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A perspective on current fitting strategies for asymmetric hearing loss and what might be to come. |
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New Technology |
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Integrated REM: Real-Ear Measurement From a Hearing Aid |
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by Jerry L. Yanz, PhD; Justyn F.D. Pisa, AuD; and Laurel Olson, MA |
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The authors report that integrated REM will require less than a minute of additional time to perform, no additional equipment, and no more space than the hearing aid itself. |
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New Technology |
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Accessing the "Far World": A New Age of Connectivity for Hearing Aids |
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by George Lindley, PhD, AuD |
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Mobile phones, PDAs, computers, televisions, music players, Bluetooth devices—and even the other hearing aid in a binaural fitting—can all transfer information and speech data to this new hearing device. |
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New Technology |
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Achieving Complete Personalization Using the Lifestyle Profile |
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by Tania Sultana, BSc, DipAudMAudSA, and Neil Hockley, MScAud(C) |
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New dispensing software assists in gathering data about the patient's individual needs and then transforming that data into a truly customized hearing aid fitting. |
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New Technology |
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A New Spin on Wax Management: The Centrifuge and Hearing Aids |
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by Ed Desporte, MS, Roger Juneau, BSME; and Gregory Siegle |
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Cerumen-related breakdowns and loss of performance in hearing aids have always been challenges for consumers, dispensers, and manufacturers. A new system uses centrifugal force to spin out the wax. |
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New Technology |
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Research Round up |
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Research and new avenues in auditory science are changing the way we look at our ears—and how amplification, drugs, and implants might be applied to them. |
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